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WILLIAM Gonnie, or wILniNsBURe, PENNSYLVANIA.

METAL Hoor'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of I etters Patent No. 634,615, dated October 10, 1899.

Application iilecl .I une 17, 1 899.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM GOLDIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wilkinsburg, in the countyof Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal Hoops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to barrel-hoops, and more particularly to barrel-hoops that are made of metal.

' The improvement consists in the means herein described by which I accomplish lhe objects of my invention, which ara-first, to prod uce a metal hoop that is lighter and stronger than the metal hoops heretofore used and that has ample bearing-surface against the barrel combined with a proper degree of stiiness and at the same time is sufficiently Aflexible to be easily adjusted to the barrel; second, to so construct and distribute the metal throughout the cross-section of the hoop as to 'combine great strength with sutticient lightness'of metal to permit of fastening the hoop tothe barrel by driving nails through the body of the hoop.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts.

Figure lis a perspective view of a complete hoop. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the hoop' shown in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of a modied form of the hoop.

As is 4plainly shown in the drawings, the hoop, which is made either of thin band-iron or of sheet metal cut into strips, consists of a web l and ianges 2 and 2, formed by bending over the edges of the thin metal strip.

' The ends of the hoop may be secured together by any suitable or usual means, such as riveting, as in the well-known ilat iron hoop, or by electric welding, as in various. forms o round wire hoops. The manner of securing the ends is immaterial to my invention, the "spirit of which is embodied in the flanged edges and flat web of the hoop and by means of which I produce results of great Serial No. 72,903. (No model.)

practical value that, have not heretofore been attained in a metal hoop. The upper and lower flanges may be of the same width, as is' shown in Fig. 3, or they may be of diierlent widths, asis shown in Fig. 2, without departing from my invention.

use are necessarily of considerable thickness in order to/provide anupper edge of su ihcient strength-to resist the torce ot' the iron driver without distortion of the hoop. Such'hoops are usuallyk made of band-iron, which is expensive, and, moreover, the iron driver is apt tornar the stave. The thickness of the iron hoop to the'barrel by nails, which is now the customary Way of securing thev flat wooden barrels. I-Ioops that are made of dat iron strips without flanges and are sufficiently light to permitlof driving nails through them have neither strength enough to withstand the blows in driving nor stiffness enough to resist bending, indenting the stave, and, perhaps, fracturing when subjected to a heavy side blow. Round wire hoops havealsobeen used to some extent; but they are not neat in appearance, and when subjected to blows and jars in transit the inner portion indents the stave, and later the hoop becomes slack and loosens the barrel.

To'avoid the difficulties encountered in the use of former hoops, I have devised the improved hoop herein described, that can be driven with a wooden driver, that will not mar'the barrel, that has great strength and lightness, and can be secured to the barrel by nails driven through the web. This hoop is by reason of its flanged edges Well adapted to be driven onto the barrel by mechanism commonly used for driving wooden hoops.

Y What I claim isl. A metal hoop having iat outwardlyright angles from the web of the hoop, substantially as described.

2. A metal hoop having two iiat outwardlyhanged edges, said edges projecting substanhoop makes it impracticable to secure thev hoops usedin making su gar and other slack tially at right angles to the web of the hoop,

The Hat ironl iiangeless hoops in common flanged edges projecting substantially at the [hinges being` of uneqlmi depth, subsian- I portion projecting at right angles to lshe web iai-ally as described. l of the hoop, substantially as described. xo 3. A metal hoop having@ thin web portion In testimony whereof I affix my signature and fiat outwardly-flanged edges project-ing in presence of two witnesses. at right angles from the web of the hoop, as herein shown and described. y

4:. A metal hoop having a, thin web portion :l nd an upperoutwardly-extending flaflanged I WILLIAM GOLDIE. NVitnesses:

GEO. B. WILLooX, M. H. IRWIN. 

